Quote by D.H. Lawrence
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children,

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. – D.H. Lawrence

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I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. – D.H. Lawrence

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Society
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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. – D.H. Lawrence

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. – D.H. Lawrence

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There is no such thing as part freedom. – Nelson Mandela

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But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. – Demetri Martin

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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better…. – Albert Camus

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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. – Author Unknown

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